China’s economic upgrading

October 26, 2016 - Chi Lo

Amid all the concerns about China’s structural woes, reform policy and economic rebalancing, its industrial sector has been moving up the value-added chain quietly. More crucially, the sunrise industries are mostly private-sector driven. While this is an encouraging development, only time will tell how far Beijing will let market forces and the private sector function, as there is an incentive incompatibility problem inherent in the reform process that it will have to resolve.